How a Sick Chimp Led to a Global Pandemic: The Rise of HIV
In the first video in our two part series on HIV and AIDS, we explain how scientists figured out what HIV is, when the infection morphs into AIDS, and where they think the virus originated....
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Here at SciShow, we talk a lot about the fascinating, complicated, and often very weird stories of discovery and collaboration that led to the science we know today. But one of the strangest is something we haven't covered in much detail before, and it's a biggie: the decades it took to figure out exactly what HIV and AIDS were, and how to prevent and treat them. Since the start of the AIDS crisis, some 70 million people have been infected with HIV, and 35 million of those people have died. Both those numbers are staggering in their own way, and together, they tell the story of a disease that has led to an incredible amount of loss, but also one that — if you’re lucky enough to have access to the right medicines — is no longer a death sentence....
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Here at SciShow, we talk a lot about the fascinating, complicated, and often very weird stories of discovery and collaboration that led to the science we know today. But one of the strangest is something we haven't covered in much detail before, and it's a biggie: the decades it took to figure out exactly what HIV and AIDS were, and how to prevent and treat them. Since the start of the AIDS crisis, some 70 million people have been infected with HIV, and 35 million of those people have died. Both those numbers are staggering in their own way, and together, they tell the story of a disease that has led to an incredible amount of loss, but also one that — if you’re lucky enough to have access to the right medicines — is no longer a death sentence....
